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As a Quebecer born and bred I have lived here for 29 of my 34 years.
Fresnelly, do you know any Separatists or are you just blowin' smoke?
Don't get me wrong, there IS a whiny, impossible to satisy element
to the movement.
There are/were others, however. Folks of incredible intellect and extremely
high standards. Claude Laurin, Rene Levesque are well known.
At it's heart, it started out as not a "Canada doesn't work" as much as
"Canada doesn't work the way WE want."
Democracy allows for this, right?
There was also an extremely strong reaction of "screw Anglos" to many decades of being treated as second class citizens by the rest of Canada.
Although the scale is wrong, the rest of Canada's reaction to separatists seems to me to be similar to the majority of white America's reaction to Malcolm X.
That was 25 years ago.
All that being said. I think Harper did a VERY good thing.
So far, I like this guy.
Being in Montreal, I have no choice but to vote liberal.
Harper gets my support far for his policies.
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